Berger’s essay “Ways of Seeing” deals a lot with art and vision and how people view art, but he never talks about writing and I think there is a good reason behind that. The essay starts by telling how words cannot tell a scene like paintings can and I took that as Berger dismissing words as being inferior to painting in the way that they portray things. Also, Berger is an art critic and he specializes in paintings, which means he would know more about paintings and the history of paintings, then he would know of writing.

Writing and painting are similar but are still two very different forms of artwork. Writing is using language to tell a story and he

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